Lady Gaga Tells Jay Leno That Madonna Loves 'Born This Way'

Feb 15th 2011 11:00AMEmail ThisLast night, Lady Gaga stopped by 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' to let everyone know that Madonna contacted her to voice her "love and complete support" for Gaga's latest smash, 'Born This Way,' after the Internet erupted with claims that the track borrows heavily from the Queen of Pop's 1989 classic 'Express Yourself.'

"You know, there is really no one that is a more adoring and loving Madonna fan than me. I am the hugest fan, personally and professionally," Gaga told Leno. "Well, the good news is, I got an e-mail from her people and her sending me their love and complete support on behalf of the single, and if the Queen says it shall be, then it shall be."

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"It's so full of love and spirit, and I think that it's the spirit that people are reacting to the most. I just want everyone to rejoice and celebrate and be unafraid to be happy with music," Lady G said of her new single. "It doesn't always have to be so dark, it doesn't always have to be so sexy. Sometimes it's wonderful just to celebrate life and kind of go to church with it, you know?"

Watch (Madonna talk starts at 3:16):



Asked by Leno how she celebrated her three Grammy wins, Gaga playfully quipped, "I don't remember very much. I know it was fun. I do remember being called drunky Gaga at some point."

She also clarified that she arrived at the Grammys in a "vessel" and not an egg, saying, "Hussein Chalayan, who designed it, he said, 'Make sure you tell everyone it's a vessel.'" On Sunday, Gaga stormed the red carpet at the Grammys inside of a vessel carried by four musclemen. According to her creative team, she was "incubating" in preparation for her performance. "Lady Gaga is in creative embryonic stage and won't be born until this evening," one of her handlers told Ryan Seacrest.

When Leno jokingly asked if Will Smith, who was seated behind her at the Grammys, could see past her large, black "church" hat, Gaga answered in the affirmative and then sang the praises of young Willow Smith: "I know Will, and I love Willow. I told her that she inspired me to whip my hair back and forth onstage."

Leno also asked the singer if she intended to continue speaking out on behalf of gay rights (she does) and whether she's met anyone her own age who does not support equality (she has), which led Gaga to explain the rationale behind the vessel and rebirth motif she worked at the Grammys. "It's meant to signify an artistic statement [about] birthing a new race, and it's a race with no prejudice, a race within the race of humanity that bears no prejudice against anyone," she said.



Though the official chart won't be released until tomorrow, Billboard is already projecting that after a mere three days of release, 'Born This Way' will debut at the top of the singles chart, making it the 1,000th song to lead the tally. The track launched in a massive fashion -- at radio, 'Born This Way' was picked up more than any debuting title in the chart's 18-year history, according to Nielsen BDS, and it sold a staggering 450,000 digital downloads, the biggest debut ever for a track by a female artist and the fourth-largest digital track download debut ever (though, it's worth noting that the three tracks with higher debut tallies had a full week's worth of sales under their belts before appearing on the chart).

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